{"quotes":[{"text":"Set within the seed of the soul is not jut a fleeting image or a vague pattern but a lifelong story enfolded within, waiting to be cracked open and lived all the way out.","author":"Michael Meade","tags":["life-story","soul","transformation"],"id":324,"author_id":"Michael+Meade"},{"text":"You are the author of your own life story. You have the leading role and get to determine how you interact with your supporting cast and other characters. Without realizing it, you may have allowed the events in your life to write your story for you rather than taking deliberate action to write it in your own voice. What will it take to love your life story to create the happy endings you desire?","author":"Susan C. Young","tags":["change","communication","empowerment","flourishing","life-balance","life-story","mindset","optimism","personal-growth","positive-psychology","resilience","rewrite","self-help","self-improvement","speaker-susan-young","stress-management","stress-relief","success","thrive-in-times-of-change","www-susanspeaks-com"],"id":19416,"author_id":"Susan+C.+Young"},{"text":"My wish has always been to write my own story, to create a life that’s worth writing about. But is a story worth anything at all if I have no one to tell it to?","author":"Charlotte Eriksson","tags":["into-the-wild","life-and-living","life-story","loneliness","solitude","story","writer"],"id":31363,"author_id":"Charlotte+Eriksson"},{"text":"We each possess the capacity for self-development. We also possess the capacity for self-destruction. The path that we chose to take – to pursue lightness or darkness – is the story that we take to our graves.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["life-story","personal-growth","self-destruction","self-destructive","self-determination","self-determination","self-development","self-development","story-of-your-life"],"id":33168,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"Storytelling entails weaving a narrative out of the disturbing, strange, inspirational, and unremarkable detritus of life. By picking among the litter of our personal experiences to select evocative anecdotes to weave into a narrative format, we reveal which of life’s legendary offerings prove the most sublime to us. Acts of omission are momentous. Our narration of personal sketches divulge what factoids inspire us or do not stir us into action, or contain obdurate truths that prove virtually impossible to crack.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["autobiography","essay-writing","life-story","memoir","memoir-writing","personal-story","story-of-my-life","storytelling","storytelling","writers-on-writing","writing","writing-philosophy","writing-process"],"id":43345,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"Is your life story the truth? Yes, the chronological events are true. Is it the whole truth? No, you see and judge it through your conditioned eyes and mind - not of all involved - nor do you see the entire overview. Is it nothing but the truth? No, you select, share, delete, distort, subtract, assume and add what you want, need and choose to.","author":"Rasheed Ogunlaru","tags":["assume","assumptions","brainy","choice","conditioning","delete","distort","facts","fiction","how-you-feel-about-the-world","how-you-look-at-life","human-condition","human-consciousness","inspirational","judge-and-jury","judgement","lies","lies-we-believe","lies-we-tell-ourselves","life-coach","life-events","life-story","living-in-the-past","memory","mind","mind","motivational","motivational-speaker","nlp","overcoming-adversity","overcoming-challenges","painful-memories","perspective","programming","programming-your-mind","project","rasheed-ogunlaru","rasheed-ogunlaru","self-doubt","truth","truth"],"id":45012,"author_id":"Rasheed+Ogunlaru"},{"text":"How concrete everything becomes in the world of the spirit when an object, a mere door, can give images of hesitation, temptation, desire, security, welcome and respect. If one were to give an account of all the doors one has closed and opened, of all the doors one would like to re-open, one would have to tell the story of one's entire life.","author":"Gaston Bachelard","tags":["doors","doorway","life","life-story","opening","spirit","story"],"id":47135,"author_id":"Gaston+Bachelard"},{"text":"Her direct stare probed, as if the story of my life were written in my eyes in a few succinct lines that she could read.","author":"Dean Koontz","tags":["eyes","life-story","maybelle-bullock","odd-thomas","stare","written"],"id":60196,"author_id":"Dean+Koontz"},{"text":"You read and write and sing and experience, thinking that one day these things will build the character you admire to live as. You love and lose and bleed best you can, to the extreme, hoping that one day the world will read you like the poem you want to be.","author":"Charlotte Eriksson","tags":["change","changing","growing-up","growth","journey","leaving","life","life-story","living","london","musician","poetry","self-development","self-knowledge","solitude","songwriter","spiritual-growth","sweden","the-great-perhaps","travelling"],"id":73491,"author_id":"Charlotte+Eriksson"},{"text":"If I choose to take the pen from God and write the story of my life without Him, I better have plenty of erasers and a whole lot of white-out. Better yet, I should invest in a good shredder.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["arrogance","arrogant","christian","christianity","defiant","eraser","fool","foolish","foolishness","god","independence","independent","jesus","jesus-christ","life","life-story","pen-write","self-destruction","self-sabotage","shredder","story","stubborn","whiteout"],"id":79032,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":54,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}